Study: More than 13 million people died of covid in urban India

August 9, 2021

According to official statistics, less than 300,000 Indians have died due to covid-19 infection in 2021. However, according to latest data of YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey, this is a colossal underestimation of actual deaths.

Key findings

YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey was conducted online in between June-July 2021. It covered 10,285 respondents from households across 203 cities and towns.
According to the survey, 17% of the respondents lost someone in their household because of covid-19 since the start of 2021. This equal to 13.9 million deaths among urban netizens of India.
Scale of covid-19 tragedy is evident from the fact that, six in ten respondents lost someone in their own family or close circle.
Among the largest cities, Delhi and Hyderabad witnessed relatively higher death tolls.

Under-reporting of Data

Government officials have sought under-reporting of official data and brush aside complaints on shortages of hospital beds and oxygen during second wave of Covid-19. In a writer reply to Rajya Sabha, Union health minister said no reports of patients dying due to shortage of oxygen and lack of hospital facilities were received.
However, respondents of YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial survey reported, knew patients who faced difficulties in getting a bed or oxygen cylinders. 46% of respondents were aware of cases when patient lost their life because of lack of medical supplies and oxygen.
63% respondents said, they or someone in their family or in immediate neighbourhood faced difficulty finding hospital beds or oxygen cylinders.

Yougov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey

This survey was conducted by the Indian arm of global market research firm YouGov, Mint, and w Delhi-based think tank Centre for Policy Research (CPR). Half the respondents were millennials and rest were pre-millennials (40+) or post-millennials (aged 18-24). It was the sixth of a series of bi-annual surveys that aims to examine aspirations, anxieties and attitudes of India’s digital natives.

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